The station died about the same time as hair metal lost popularity.

Many described them as going into hair metal, with very commercial and anonymous songs.

Since then he has written and produced a variety of artists from hair metal to cajun.

I mean, I wasn't exactly looking for 80's hair metal.

And the soundtrack, while cheesy in the way only hair metal can be, packs a nice broad punch.

As the 90s began, hair metal was dominating the charts, especially formulaic bands like Extreme.

Yet hair metal wasn't just flashy: it was craven.

Since the 1980s, the term has been sometimes interchangeable with hair metal or glam metal.

It's the same thing that happened in the early 90's with grunge, and with hair metal before that.

Although Tesla emerged during the glory days of hair metal, they never completely fit the spirit of the times.